The water falls, drop after drop after drop, like the second hand of a watch, carving up time. THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * T HE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. Yko Ogawa, The Memory Police 19 likes Like For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out it has to come at regular intervals, with no end in sight.

When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. The Memory Police exists in an Orwellian world, but its tone and story is far more extreme and less grounded. Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book AwardĪ haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa